BACOLOD CITY – The city government has proposed a P3.6-billion budget for 2024. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez, in a press briefing at the Bacolod City Government Center on Monday, September 25, said that they have finished budget deliberations with all the department heads last week....
BACOLOD CITY – A Chinese-Korean electric vehicle firm revealed on Friday, September 22, that 36 units of electric jeepneys (e-jeepneys) from China are expected to arrive here by the end of November. E-Future Motors Philippines (PH) Inc. received an order from their first client in the Philippines...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here said on Tuesday, September 19, that a Dutch company has expressed interest in helping address flooding in this city. Benitez, chairman of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-Western Visayas, along with some members of the city...
BACOLOD CITY – Volunteers received two kilos of rice for every sack of garbage they collected in the coastal cleanup in celebration of the 66th birth anniversary of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in Barangay Banago here on Wednesday, September 13. More than 1,000 volunteers joined the...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has allotted P10.3 million to subsidize participating barangays in this year’s MassKara street dance and arena competition and Electric MassKara competition. The city council approved the financial assistance during its session on Tuesday, September 12. Mayor...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez revealed on Tuesday, August 1, that 46 city government personnel tested positive for illegal drug use. BENITEZ Benitez said they comprise eight to 10 percent of job order city government employees. Twenty-nine were from the Bacolod Traffic...
BACOLOD CITY – Tchoukball athletes from this city will represent the country in the Southeast Asia Tchoukball Championship 2023 in Singapore from July 17 to 18. The Bacolod-based Tchoukball Philippine Team met Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez before they flew to Singapore. The team initially...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) is once again vying for the Best City Police Office citation in the country. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez, along with Abang-Lingkod party-list Rep. Stephen Paduano, graced the validation and evaluation of the BCPO at its...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here is awaiting the response of Mayor Jerry Treñas regarding his appeal to lift the executive order declaring Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran person non-grata over the uncoordinated transfer of Badjaos from this city to Iloilo City...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has obtained a P4.4-billion loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to fund priority projects. THE city government of Bacolod has obtained a P4.441-billion loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines to fund priority project. The loan...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has a new director in Police Col. Noel Aliño who assumed the position in an acting capacity on Tuesday, April 18. Aliño, who is a native of Isabela, replaced Police Col. Thomas Joseph Martir, a native of Bacolod, who will retire from the...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘’Albee’’ Benitez ordered the contractor and the Department of Public Services (DPS) on Friday, Nov. 18, to fast-track the collection of garbage here delayed by the damaged road leading to the sanitary landfill in Barangay Felisa. A GARBAGE truck...
